# was Walt Disney a nazi and an antisemite **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 10, 2002, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-walt-disney-a-nazi-and-an-antisemite/102747 "2002-04-10T00:48:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Bob\_Scene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Bob\_Scene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bob_Scene)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2002, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-walt-disney-a-nazi-and-an-antisemite/102747/41 "2002-04-15T20:04:33Z")
You can watch “Education For Death” right [here.](http://www.ifilm.com/ifilm/product/film_info/0,3699,2408800,00.html) ---
**Author:** ![non-native](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bc8723/32.png) [@non-native](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/non-native)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2002, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-walt-disney-a-nazi-and-an-antisemite/102747/42 "2002-04-15T22:48:59Z")
**Max Torque** I would also enjoy watching that cartoon in person. Could you email the url to me, please? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![pesch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pesch/32/4925_2.png) [@pesch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pesch)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2002, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-walt-disney-a-nazi-and-an-antisemite/102747/43 "2002-04-15T23:21:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DAVEW0071 \* > \*\* There is also the fact that enough people are horrified at _any_ reference to Nazism, in whatever context, and would likely cause further headaches. > > The short should be preserved as a historic document, but releasing it to the general public isn’t really in anyone’s best interests. \*\* (slight hijack) When I visited the RAF Museum outside London in 1978, I was informed by one of the officials that the gift shop was especially popular with German tour groups, who would flood the place, buying WWII-related items and smuggle them back to der fatherland. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2002, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-walt-disney-a-nazi-and-an-antisemite/102747/44 "2002-06-10T04:30:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by happyheathen \* > \*\*That, in 1938, Disney released a film that was little short of Nazi propaganda… > Yes, I emailed them - the response was ‘we made only anti-Nazi cartoons’. I didn’t mention ‘cartoon’ - I believe the film in question was live-action, so their statement was not, technically, a lie. \*\* This is crackpot. Disney did not make live action films in the 1930s. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2002, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-walt-disney-a-nazi-and-an-antisemite/102747/45 "2002-06-10T11:07:59Z")
I tried to watch _Education For Death_, but was unable to. First, ifilm did a “one time system check” then said the film wasn’t found. When I tried again, it did the “one time check” again and this time asked me which player I wanted to use. Then nothing. I tried a third time, did the one-time check again, chose my player again, and then got what looked like a Real Player screen with a choise of other films – but _Education For Death_ didn’t play so I gave up. ---
**Author:** ![curwin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@curwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curwin)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2002, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-walt-disney-a-nazi-and-an-antisemite/102747/46 "2002-06-11T07:24:43Z")
I don’t have a quote, but I remember in the beginning of the book _Maus_ that Speigelman wrote that he made the Jews mice because Hitler had written something bad about Mickey Mouse. ---
**Author:** ![curwin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@curwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curwin)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2002, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-walt-disney-a-nazi-and-an-antisemite/102747/47 "2002-06-11T10:31:17Z")
I found a quote. From this site: > **[Online.nl | Internet, TV en Bellen](https://www.online.nl/)** > > Teveel betalen voor Internet, TV en Bellen? Bij Online.nl krijg je meer voor minder! Altijd de maximale Internet snelheid, meer televisie en voordelig bellen. > [@](#): > > from MAUS II: > > Mickey Mouse is the most miserable ideal ever revealed…Healthy > emotions tell every independent young man and every honorable you > that the dirty and filth-covered vermin, the greatest bacteria > carrier in the animal kingdom, cannot be the ideal type of > animal…Away with Jewish brutalization of the people! Down with > Mickey Mouse! Wear the Swastika Cross! > –newspaper article, Pomerania, Germany, mid 1939s [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-walt-disney-a-nazi-and-an-antisemite/102747.md?page=2)